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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Stubborn Amish and Stubborn Atheists
One of my earliest memories is of an incident in the kindergarten of my childhood in Vienna. I must have been at most five years old. I was supposed to speak a line in a play about which I have … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, Modernity, United States
A New Direction for the Russian Orthodox Church?
On January 7 The New York Times reported that Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, head of the Department of Church and Society of the Moscow Patriarchate and one of the highest officials in the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church, said in … Continue reading
Counting Christian Noses
In December 2011 the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (Washington) issued A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Christian Population. Some of the data were developed in collaboration with the Center for the Study of … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Inter-faith Dialogue, Pentecostalism
Islamic Philosophy and the Future of the Arab Spring
There are few current questions about international developments as important as the ones concerning the future of what, rather optimistically, has been called the Arab Spring. Will this series of popular uprisings indeed lead to a new era of democracy … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Philosophy, Politics
